Mannequins agent Jean-Luc Brunel, formerly close to Jeffrey Epstein, whose name appeared in the American survey targeting the American financier who died in July, is now implicated in French justice by an old supermodel who accused of rape. This 46-year-old Dutch woman claims to have been drugged and raped by Jean-Luc Brunel in a Paris apartment in the early 1990s, when she was just a major, in a letter sent Thursday to the Parisian prosecutor Rémy Heitz and revealed by Mediapart , which AFP was able to consult.
According to his story, several models lived in this housing located Avenue Hoche, near the Champs-Elysees, and receptions were organized "daily" with "rich businessmen who were accompanied by very young girls". "Since the facts are prescribed, my client knows that her testimony can not lead to prosecution against Jean-Luc Brunel, but she nevertheless wished to testify, in order to advance the investigation", assured AFP Anne- Claire Le Jeune, the lawyer of this ex-model who asked to remain anonymous.
Suspected of being a reel for Jeffrey Epstein
Alerted to potential French victims, the Paris prosecutor's office opened in August this investigation for "rape" and "sexual assault", including on minors, in the context of the case of US financier Jeffrey Epstein, already prosecuted in the United States before he died in prison. The name of Jean-Luc Brunel, founder of modeling agencies Karin Models and MC2 Model Management, already appeared in the US procedure. One of the main plaintiffs, Virginia Giuffre, claimed to have been forced to have sex with Jean-Luc Brunel.
In a first proceeding in the United States closed in 2007, two women had already accused him of playing the role of reeler for Jeffrey Epstein, bringing to the United States "girls" from modest backgrounds by dangling jobs in the United States. modeling. Contacted by AFP, the Paris prosecutor's office said he did not want to communicate "on investigations made at this stage." Jean-Luc Brunel, for his part, could not be reached.